back to company universe
Developer tools

Shor

Shor is international payroll, built for founders. Hire your first international employee or contractor at startup speed. Set up on one call, run payroll the same week. Pay contractors and employ full-time team members through Shor's EOR across the world. Localized contracts, automatic compliance, and same-day local-currency payouts at a flat FX margin. No setup fees, no lock-ins. Backed by Polychain Capital, Founders Capital, and Goodwater, among others.

sources
1
Evidence entries preserved.
affiliations
1
Y Combinator
competitors
6
Mapped from High Signal graph features.
status
generated
D1 lookup
last updated
2026-07-15
16:41 UTC
source evidence
Why this company exists here

Y Combinator

yc-company-directory #3055

Shor is international payroll, built for founders. Hire your first international employee or contractor at startup speed. Set up on one call, run payroll the same week. Pay contractors and employ full-time team members through Shor's EOR across the world. Localized contracts, automatic compliance, and same-day local-currency payouts at a flat FX margin. No setup fees, no lock-ins. Backed by Polychain Capital, Founders Capital, and Goodwater, among others.

source
generated read
High Signal interpretation

Shor is classified as Developer tools from source descriptions and fund-directory context. Similar companies below are ranked from offline product facets and meaningful description overlap; category and source affiliation can only strengthen an existing product match. For lookup-created rows, the profile starts as pending enrichment until deeper source collection runs.

offline extraction
Product facets
international payroll
mapping method
Similarity graph

Local clusters rerank extracted product concepts and description terms. The generated graph remains the fallback for sparse descriptions: offline reciprocal product-similarity graph: extracted concepts + description terms + bounded category/affiliation boosts. Minimum fallback score: 0; max competitors: 6.

discovery cluster

Companies similar to Shor

Developer tools · 6 peers

A deterministic local cluster built from offline product facets and meaningful description terms. Category and selected-institution affiliation provide bounded tie-breaks. Open any peer to continue exploring its cluster.

malibou

match 65

malibou is a web application helping French SMBs to manage employees, run payroll and track compliance in a single app. When processing payroll in France, you either have the choice between an accountant with good advice but no way to connect an HRIS with him, or a good HRIS that does not include payroll services. It was time for a change, to finally bring payroll and HR at the same place. Due to increasing competition in the space, French payroll engines have just opened their APIs. This allows

shared product terms: employee, run, payroll, compliance; shared product theme: security and compliance; same category: Developer tools; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Probo

match 62

Probo acts like your compliance team. You tell us how you work, and Probo does the rest: 1. Set the right requirements - not overkill 2. Handle docs, risks, controls, evidence 3. Run the audit 4. Keep everything up to date afterward Founders shouldn’t lose weeks to this stuff. Even one day is too much.

shared product terms: compliance, set, run, up; shared product theme: security and compliance; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Pulley

match 52

Pulley is the cap table and equity management platform that helps founders and finance teams manage their equity. For early stage companies, Pulley helps founders get started on hiring and fundraising, avoid expensive equity mistakes, and save thousands on legal fees. With Pulley, you can compare different funding scenarios, raise capital, and set up equity grants for employees. Our tools help companies answer important questions such as: 1. How much of the company will I own after my next round

shared product terms: founder, fees, capital, set; same category: Developer tools; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Capi Money

match 52

Capi helps businesses in emerging markets make international payments. Importers in emerging markets pay up to 10% to settle invoices and wait weeks for payments to arrive. We’re on a mission to give businesses in emerging markets the same price and speed as we expect in the US and Europe.

shared product terms: international, pay, up, week; same category: Developer tools; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Moritz

match 49

Moritz is a global AI-native law firm that will handle your legal work the same day, at a fraction of the market price. Our AI does 80% of the work, so you pay our elite lawyers for the final 20%. Our lawyers have closed $2bn in deals with an average turnaround of 4-hours. No other law firm offers this kind of speed for complex deals.

shared product terms: same, day, pay, no; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Polychain

match 8

Other company.

shared product terms: polychain